Elisabeth Gabriel & Daryoush Asgar: Deep Sleep Dummy

Given hyperactivity that is as permanent as possible, maximized benefits, goal focus, enhanced efficiency, attention economy ... lead to success, profits, growth, recognition ..., says and believes homo oeconomicus, who is busy conquering almost all walks of civilization the world over and at now point doubts the sense of his mission. Skepticism, critique and resistance do not generate shared and really persuasive alternative concepts. Artist duo Elisabeth Gabriel & Daryoush Asgar therefore create places to which we can flee from the command to be productive, where we can refuse to fulfill its tasks and evade its promises - essentially waiting rooms where we can live independently and spend much time pondering things. Revolutionizing ideas can see the light of day here as can thoughts on the end of painting, a cultural new beginning relying on technologically Stone Age-like state of the arts ... or simply do nothing. In terms of design and fit-out Elisabeth Gabriel & Daryoush Asgars thinking and waiting rooms at any rate are exciting, practical, useful and timeless ... as well as the requisite degree of absurdity and ironic distance